About the Book:
A serial
killer has the people of Pittsburgh on edge, and Detective Daniel Hayes and his
hand-picked Special Assignment Squad are working feverishly to solve the case
before more innocent lives are lost. But
the killer proves to be a formidable foe, whose viciousness appears to be
matched only by his ability to elude capture.
Throughout
Small
Talk, the
reader is given glimpses into the mind of this cunning and sadistic murderer,
an individual who seeks a face-to-face confrontation with his pursuers, a
confrontation Daniel is only too willing to provide.
About Robert Germaux:
Robert Germaux and his wife, Cynthia, live outside of Pittsburgh. After three decades as a high school English teacher, and now a good many years into retirement, he is beginning to have serious doubts about his lifelong dream of pitching for the Pirates.
Small Talk is Robert Germaux’s second book. His first book, The Backup Husband, is a contemporary romance novel, available on Amazon.
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Robert
Germaux Author Q & A
I
see you were a high school English teacher for thirty years. That’s quite an
accomplishment! Were you doing much
writing during this time?
No,
I wasn’t, mainly because I was too busy grading my students’ papers, along with
doing the thousand-and-one other things involved with teaching. And to be honest, I really didn’t think of
myself as a writer during those years.
What
made you decide to take the plunge and publish your first book, The Backup Husband?
Pretty
much just the desire to put my work out there, to see if it was as good as I
hoped it was.
Why
did you take the Indie route?
I’d
written several books about a private detective named Jeremy Barnes, but my
agent and I hadn’t been able to find a publisher for them. I knew how popular eBooks were becoming, so I
thought I’d try that route.
The Backup Husband is a contemporary
romance novel. Small Talk is about a
serial killer. Was this a conscious decision to keep your book genre choices
open?
No,
not really. I’d had the idea for The
Backup Husband floating around in my head for some time, and after I wrote it,
I thought it might be the best book for my initial foray into the world of eBooks. My other books are all crime novels, and
that’s the genre I most enjoy.
What
kind of research did you do for Small
Talk?
I
was fairly knowledgeable about standard police procedures, but I had to do a
lot of research into the technical aspects of the investigation by Daniel and
his squad, things like facial recognition software, etc. I also had to educate myself about what can
be learned at autopsy, which wasn’t my favorite part of the research for this
book.
What
would you say has been the most difficult thing about Indie publishing?
I
knew next to nothing about Indie publishing, and at first, it seemed as though
every time I learned something, that led to two or three other “somethings” I
had to learn. It was very frustrating.
Are
you currently working on a new book?
I’m
finishing the final edit on One by One, the next case for Daniel and the
Special Assignment Squad.
Do
you have any advice for new Indie authors?
I
would recommend that they educate themselves as much as possible about the
world of Indie publishing, but even more important, try to find someone who
already knows all this stuff and is willing to guide you through the
process. When I decided to put The Backup
Husband online, I had no idea what I was doing, which made for a long and
arduous experience. With Small Talk,
I’ve been lucky enough to have Susan Barton in my corner, making the whole
process a delight.
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